Word: well-meant
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...Massachusetts Avenue in pursuit of the 150's with sudden death lurking in every whitewalled wheel, of tandem bicycle rides in Brookline, of lengthy collateral assignments for History 1, of warm evenings on Mt. Auburn Street, of dust and bats and paper cups on the ball field, and of well-meant oaths of fealty to some sweet, starry-eyed blonde about to be ravished by the iniquitous practices of the coming debutante season...
Many Mansions was the product of a father-&-son collaboration. Jules Eckert Goodman, a weathered playwright (Potash and Perlmutter, 21 others), eagerly helped Son Eckert concoct his first play. The well-meant result is like Alice's Mock Turtle...
...uncomfortable hint that in his death he is the bravest of them all. Ken Holden, the some-what major figure, trims his political views to suit his status of the moment, and when he learns that his life-giving job is merely a concoetion of his father's well-meant trickery, he gets drunk, and then resigns himself. He it is who ends the play with the discordant note of admiration for the suicide...
...this meant anything, it meant that the President was on the fence and to get him off became the surprising ambition last week of Mr. Hull's predecessor, Republican onetime Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Lawyer Stimson's well-meant "Stimson Doctrine," which persuaded virtually all nations not to recognize Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo (TIME, March 7, 1932), led the Great Powers down the deadest dead-end street of latter day diplomacy and in that street they are still stalled. Last week ingenious Statesman Stimson, in an open letter to the Press, clarioned...
AMERICAN FAMILY-Faith Baldwin- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Well-meant but uninspired three-generation family novel...